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DEATH BY GOVERNMENT: GENOCIDE AND MASS MURDER

All told, governments killed more than 262 million people in the 20th century outside of wars, according to University of Hawaii political science professor R.J. Rummel. Just to give perspective on this incredible murder by government, if all these bodies were laid head to toe, with the average height being 5', then they would circle the earth ten times. Also, this democide murdered 6 times more people than died in combat in all the foreign and internal wars of the century. Finally, given popular estimates of the dead in a major nuclear war, this total democide is as though such a war did occur, but with its dead spread over a century

Sunday, July 17, 2011

U.K. Police Arrest Former Chief of Newspaper Unit in Phone-Hacking Probe

The U.K. police investigation into alleged phone hacking took a dramatic turn Sunday with the arrest of Rebekah Brooks, the former chief of News Corp.'s U.K. newspaper unit who resigned Friday.

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Rebekah Brooks, former chief executive of News International.

London's Metropolitan Police, known as Scotland Yard, arrested her around noon Sunday when she appeared by appointment at a London police station. She hadn't been charged.
It was the 10th arrest by police in a dual probe investigating allegations of voice-mail interceptions and corrupt payments to police. The allegations focus on the News of the World, News Corp.'s Sunday tabloid that the company recently closed after 168 years amid an escalating scandal.
News Corp. owns Dow Jones & Co. and The Wall Street Journal.

By midafternoon on Sunday, Ms. Brooks remained in police custody along with her legal representation, according to a spokesman for the former News International chief executive. "She is assisting police at the moment," the spokesman said, noting that the appointment with police was prearranged. "Until that's completed, I can't really say any more."
Ms. Brooks is due to come under public scrutiny this week when she is due to appear before a parliamentary committee alongside News Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch and his son, James Murdoch, News Corp.'s deputy chief operating officer. The trio will face questioning from U.K. politicians about the hacking and whether executives previously misled Parliament.

The News That Shook the World

July 4: A lawyer for murdered teen Milly Dowler's family says he learned from police that her voice-mail messages had been hacked, possibly by a News of the World investigator.
July 6: U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron says he is 'revolted' by allegations that private investigators from the paper eavesdropped on the voice mails of victims of crime.
July 7: News Corp. announces it will close down the News of the World. The July 10 edition of the weekly paper was the last.
July 8: Mr. Cameron announces two inquiries, one on the hacking scandal, another focusing on press regulations. Former News of the World editor and ex-Cameron aide Andy Coulson is arrested in connection with the scandal.
July 10: Mr. Murdoch flies into London to handle the crisis.
July 12: Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown accuses News International of employing criminals to obtain confidential information about his family. News International defends its journalism.
July 13: Under U.K. political pressure, News Corp. withdraws its bid to buy the 60.9% of British Sky Broadcasting that it doesn't already own.
July 14: Rupert Murdoch and son James Murdoch agree to testify at a parliamentary hearing to answer questions about the company's phone-hacking scandal. In the U.S., the FBI said it would open a probe into whether News of the World might have hacked into phones of 9/11 victims.

On Friday, people close to the company said her resignation wasn't tied to any new developments in the police investigation that were known to be coming. Instead, the company portrayed it as part of a broader damage-control campaign that it rolled out Friday and that also included the resignation of Dow Jones Chief Executive Les Hinton and several apologies from Rupert Murdoch.

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Others arrested including former News of the World editor Andy Coulson as well as several former editors and senior reporters. No one has been charged. In the U.K., individuals can be arrested without being charged. Once police investigate further, charges may follow, which can be a matter of days or months.
The arrest of Ms. Brooks will further intensify already high expectations for Tuesday's parliamentary hearing. News International executives as recently as 2009 had told the committee that the phone hacking was limited to just one reporter at the News of the World.
The committee also has previously asked Ms. Brooks about payments to police. While editor of the Sun in 2003, she told the committee: "We have paid the police for information in the past," without elaborating.
In April, Ms. Brooks said in a letter to lawmakers that her intention was to comment on a "widely held belief" rather than suggest she knew of specific cases.
James Murdoch earlier this month said that News of the World and News International had failed to "get to the bottom of repeated wrongdoing that occurred" and, as a result, "wrongly maintained that these issues were confined to one reporter." The company now has handed police evidence that he believed "will prove that this is untrue," he said.
"The paper made statements to Parliament without being in the full possession of the facts. This was wrong," James Murdoch added, in the statement.
Following her resignation Friday, Ms. Brooks said in an email to staff: "I feel a deep sense of responsibility for the people we have hurt and I want to reiterate how sorry I am.
"I have believed that the right and responsible action has been to lead us through the heat of the crisis, however my desire to remain on the bridge has made me a focal point of the debate," she said. "This is now detracting attention from all our honest endeavours to fix the problems of the past," she added.
As Rupert Murdoch's protégé, Ms. Brooks quickly rose to be one of the U.K.'s most powerful journalists. Her drive and determination won her a place close to the News Corp. chief executive. Known for her ability to charm, and her striking mane of red hair, Ms. Brooks is well connected within the U.K.'s political and business elite.
Both Prime Minister David Cameron and his predecessor, Gordon Brown attended her wedding to Charlie Brooks, a racehorse trainer and who is an old friend of Mr. Cameron's. Since May of last year, Ms. Brooks has made several social and other visits to the prime minister, including twice to his official country residence, according to records released Friday.
Speaking before Parliament last week, however, Mr. Cameron distanced himself from her, saying that if her resignation had been offered, it should have been accepted.
Ms. Brooks grew up in Cheshire, in the north of England. She joined News Corp. in 1989 as a feature writer for News of the World's Sunday magazine. She rose up to the ranks and was named News of the World editor. In 2003, she became editor of its sister publication the Sun, a daily publication. She is known for her campaign-style of journalism, including efforts such as successfully championing a change in the law to allow parents to access the sex-offenders register following the murder of an 8-year-old girl by someone convicted of sex offenses.
Max Clifford, a public-relations adviser who has long known Ms. Brooks, described her as a decisive editor who knew readers well and the best way to present stories to appeal to that market. "Rupert recognized that," said Mr. Clifford. "She's played an incredible role in building the company in this country," he added.
Ms. Brooks had become the public face of the scandal and for many British lawmakers their chief target. Chris Bryant, the Labour lawmaker who has pushed the issue hardest, said he was "delighted" by the news, and that Ms. Brooks should have been arrested in 2003 when she told a parliamentary committee that News International had paid police officials.
Mr. Bryant thinks that police attention should now focus on James Murdoch, given he was privy to out-of-court settlements made to several people who had complained of phone hacking. "It feels as if the water is lapping around the feet of the Murdoch family now," he said.